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only, must be considered premature. He was happy to inform them 

 that a memoir of their late President, written by Mr. B. Patterson, of 

 Belfast, would be shortly placed in their hands. At the close of the 

 preceding session Dr. Harvey had commented upon the loss sustained 

 by them in the death of their late President. On this melancholy sub- 

 ject there could be no difference of opinion; but though their fellow- 

 labourers had passed from their mortal vision, let them not be banished 

 from their kindly recollections, and let the example they had set of zeal 

 in the pursuit of science ever animate their successors and followers. 

 During the meeting of the British Association in Dublin, this Associa- 

 tion had been well and efficiently represented in Section D by Mr. E. 

 Percival "Wright's highly interesting and valuable description of the 

 blind Lipura of the Mitchelstown Caves ; by Mr. Greene, in his description 

 of seven new naked-eyed Acalephae of the Dublin coast ; by the Rev. 

 Eugene O'Meara's paper on the Diatomaceae occurring in chalk; and, 

 lastly, by Dr. Kinahan's elaborate and most valuable analysis of certain 

 genera of terrestrial Isopoda. The foregoing papers formed a list, in 

 Mr. Haughton's opinion, which would be highly creditable to the mem- 

 bers of any society, and afforded good grounds of hope for the future 

 fame of many of their junior members and associates. Among these 

 papers there was only one which touched on Palaeontology, a defect for 

 which Mr. Haughton confessed himself somewhat to blame, and which 

 he hoped would be rectified in future years. "With regard to their 

 prospects of papers for the coming winter, the Association might reckon 

 with confidence on the entomological stores of Mr. Haliday, the botani- 

 cal reserves of Dr. Harvey, the accumulated wealth of the College Mu- 

 seum, zoological and geological, in displaying which before them they 

 might reckon on the zeal of the present Director of the Museum and him- 

 self. These would, undoubtedly, form the staple of their contributions, 

 not to be called for unless other papers were wanting, but sufficient to 

 fill up all gaps, and render every meeting of the Association interesting 

 and instructive. At the conclusion of his address, Professor Haughton 

 laid before the meeting the arrangements of the Board of Trinity College, 

 by virtue of which Zoology and Botany were raised to the rank of the 

 studies of the University, and incorporated with Physics, Chemistry, and 

 Geology in one Modcratorship, to be called the Moderatorship in Ex- 

 perimental and Natural Science. The Moderatorship in Experimental 

 Science was founded in 1851, and after the experience of seven years 

 had been found to work so well that the authorities of the College had 



